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                    <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">ei</journal-id>
                    <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
                    <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2470-1173</issn>
                    <publisher>
                        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
                        <publisher-loc>IS&amp;T 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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                    <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/EI.2026.38.16.AVM-102</article-id>
                    <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AVM-102</article-id>
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                        <subject>Proceedings Paper</subject>
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                        <article-title>A Semi-decentralized Collaborative Framework for Lightweight Map Updates in Urban Navigation Systems</article-title>
                    </title-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Moungoue Njiyep</surname>
                            <given-names>Gaethan Kevin </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author1"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author1">Institut VEDECOM, France</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Ben Salah</surname>
                            <given-names>Imeen </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author2"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author2">Institut VEDECOM, France</aff></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="all"><contrib contrib-type="author"><name>
                            <surname>Belhadef</surname>
                            <given-names>Ahmed Rafik Islem </given-names>
                           </name> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1author3"/> <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2author3"/></contrib><aff id="aff1author3">Institut VEDECOM, France</aff><aff id="aff2author3">ESTACA Campus Paris Saclay, France</aff></contrib-group><abstract>
                    <title>Abstract</title>
                    <p>Autonomous vehicles currently rely on High-Definition (HD) maps for precise localization and path planning. However, traditional HD mapping approaches suffer from high costs, inherent rigidity, and slow update cycles, making them inadequate for dynamic urban environments. This paper presents a novel lightweight collaborative mapping architecture that enables real-time map updates through multi-agent cooperation. Our approach combines Joint Compatibility Branch and Bound (JCBB) for data association, Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) for uncertainty quantification and landmark classification, and Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for landmark pose estimation. Experimental validation using the CARLA simulator demonstrates accurate landmark classification and localization. Furthermore, collaborative data fusion reduces false positives and improves overall system reliability.</p>
                    </abstract><pub-date>
                        <day>1</day>
                        <month>3</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                        </pub-date><volume>38</volume>
                    <issue-acronym>AVM</issue-acronym>
                    <issue-title>Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2026</issue-title>
                    <issue seq="102">16</issue>
                    <fpage>102-1</fpage>
                    <lpage>102-7</lpage>
                    <permissions>
                         <copyright-statement>©2026 Society for Imaging Science and Technology</copyright-statement>
                        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
                    </permissions><kwd-group><kwd>Lightweight map</kwd><kwd>Collaborative mapping</kwd><kwd>Autonomous vehicles</kwd><kwd>Collaborative perception</kwd><kwd>map updating</kwd><kwd>HD map</kwd><kwd>Multi-agent perception</kwd><kwd>data fusion</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta>
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